don't forget Scomo was the one who brought coal to parliament

Abbott? Try this: it started with John Howard as PM. My how short our memories are

It seems like the tories think following in his path would help them win elections, and it won't

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You've already forgotten Turnbull and Morrison? 😅 I wish I knew which minister it was that I heard on the radio in Parliament say "we have an obligation to dig up every last speck of coal". No, we don't. Abbott was responsible for a lot of kicking the can down the road, and Morrison stabbed Turnbull in the back when Turnbull tried to restore some semblance of sanity to the future of electricity in Australia. Personally I wish I could buy a Sakura EV as a second car to act as a battery for my house. Unfortunately you can't buy one outside Japan, and the maker of my solar inverter isn't quite up to speed with V2H. 😢

This country is so corrupt with its career politicians.

Iranian Aussie , I’m proud of him, I’m Iranian too , well done 👏🏻

Don’t hold your Breath, Im in the Labor Party and Quizzed Bowen at a meeting, he is umming and arming and stalling. I think the lobbyists are chewing his heels . We need to put pressure on local MPs

also in Perth, it crossed my mind to go. but not.

Most vehicles are parked 23hrs every day. 😊😊

What is that?

​@@michaelsmithers4900 You could Google it, couldn't you? Or, another response is "who cares"?

I wonder what percentage of the Australian population has driven it? Don't the majority FIFO?

People always forget second hand cars in these arguments. You buy your shiny new EV for regular trips, and buy a cheap old ICE car for whatever your niche purpose is -- maybe a twenty year old Hilux, etc. Keep the Tesla clean and put the sheep poo in the Hilux.

@@johnknight9150 the vast majority of trips for the vast majority of the population are well under 100km. Most families have two cars. Do the majority of trips with an EV, and have a hybrid for the longer trips. Not ideal. but it would be a big improvement.

More "renters rights" will result in fewer rental properties as investors move their funds to less troublesome assets.

You start by asking the owner to install solar. I am speaking from experience

You tell the owner that you aren’t renting his property because it doesn’t have solar and he needs to get it to appeal to renters

I hear you brother/sister - we were envious of you for such a long time as we kept on voting in conservative tossers. Christ can you remember our PM was downing Pina coladas in Hawaii while Australia burned? It wasn't that long ago. Keep up the fight and the tide will eventually turn.

its what happens when you dont bring the people with you. ie poor leadership

Next time try Batemans Bay if you want to see electric cars

​@@theairstig9164 but I have a holiday house here!!!!!😂😂😂😂

This is the work history of Ian Cleland (birthday: 10-1953) from 1971 to the present 7 Jan2024: 1. 1970 - Living in East Lindfield NSW 2070 when I was aware of lousy air pollution where I was living. I contacted the NSW government about the problem. They would not hear from me. So, I sent a letter. When I did not reply right away, that was the beginning of my journey. 2. 1972- I became active in the environment group. When reporting pollution throughout Greater Sydney, I used to be given reports from across Sydney from The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) about the worst air pollution. I had someone from the EPA provide them to me. 3. 1972 - I started studying for a Civil Engineering Certificate at Sydney TAFE and later became the University of Technology Sydney. 4. 1975 - I employed a draftsman, H. H. Robertson, at the Revesby, New South Wales 2212 factory. 5. 1976 - I went on contract draftsman work on several projects, varying from the railway and concrete bridges to multilevel up to 50 levels. 6. I was responsible for sewerage and water treatment plants in Canberra, ACT, and Caines, Queensland. I worked on six up and down the East Coast of Australia. I worked on the 150mm to 600mm diameter pipework and concrete tank. For several years (1998) 7. When I asked Project Manager Doug Hatley of Montgomery Hassa to go to Singapore to manage engineers and architects, 10 to 160. I worked on a 12,000mm twin TBM and five stations, two of which could hold 80,000 people and withstand a direct hit by a bunking buster or an indirect hit by a nuclear weapon. I was there from 1999 to 2005. 8. My last project: The first development in Australia, when Lismore council approves, combines 250 passive homes and 57.7MW Tesla Megapack Batteries Farm and the PV in total 161,502m2 - Tractile tiles 45,000m2 and - Tesla PV panel 116,502 m2.  The Team and I would like to submit a Developments Application to a council on North Coast NSW at the end of May 2023. I am seeing Lismore Council on 26th Oct 2023: • 250 prefabricated SIPform passive house-certified homes. On the roofs of buildings, there are Tractile. The excess electricity will be stored in the 57.7MW Tesla Megapack Batteries Farm. • The PV in total 161,502m2 - Tractile tiles 45,000m2 and - Tesla PV panel 116,502m2. The Team and I will add another 233,000 m2 of *Arctrech Solar Tracking by 2030-enough electricity for all Lismore residents and businesses. Everyone will have 3 PHASE like the Tesla Powerwall Battery. We will charge a potential wholesale AS$0.10 per kW. • Bi-Charging of BEVs two per house and 12 Tesla Super Charger stations in the shopping centre. • Micro-grid that connects to a community of 4800 residents. By 2030, we will provide all electricity to 41,500 residents of Lismore. • Landscaping the whole site, ensuring enough clearance for the surrounding bush and buildings. • We will be trailing the SoMax HTC process. • We will have a project at the end of 2024 to install a long-range wireless power transfer. Emrod Tele-Energy Technology. Some of the Teams and companies include: • SIPform • Tractile • Direct Building Solution • NB Consulting Engineers • Green Product Certification • Xlam • Weathertex • Cupolex • Arctech Solar Tracking • Tesla EV - PV - Powerwall - Tesla Megapack Batteries 9. 👉 My GOAL for 2024. 👈 The TEAM and I would like two CYBERTRUCK and the TEAM to go around AUSTRALIA, and I would swim in every 25m and 50m pools along the way. Distance: I will swim 3,000 m. in each pool. i) We will use one as a price for the raffle AUSTRALIAN. When ready, we will sell tickets at the end of March. We have registered with the Queensland Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation Charitable and Non-Profit Gaming Rule 2010. ii) I leave on Sept 2024. I will have organised the TEAM by the end of April 2024. iii) The TEAM and I will raise a minimum of AU$1,500,000. I had a stroke in July 2019. For those who have helped me: iv) 🤞My wife, Kate & Sons - who saved me on 4th Jule 2019 v) 🤞Nurses and Doctors vi) 🤞Base Hospital and Ballina Rehabilitation Hospital vii) 🤞All my friends and people have helped me. Lismore Council - GSAC Baths viii) ⌛ April 13th & 14th, 2024 ⏳ - We are having a field day - Bi-directional Charging - Battery Electric Vehicles & Renewable Energy, Lismore Workers Sports Club. Cheers, Ian Cleland SUCH Developments Sustainable Urban Community Homes

agreed, but we need to start now. ;) cities are wont need much. interconnects hubs spotted down the eastern seaboard would be nice right about now.

I own an EV in Australia, and have driven it for over 38,000 km and 15 months. Over 40 years owning and driving ICE vehicles. I've done several very long distance drives (over 2,000 miles in return) and had no problems. Recharging infrastructure is in a rapid expansion phase. Most of the time I charge from home on Solar. There is currently a couple from Perth, who are driving clockwise around Australia in a Model 3, towing a Pop-up Caravan. The caravan is fitted with Solar Panels, and batteries, and they are 10 days into their trip, and they have already reached Townsville (over, 4,100 miles)

On ABC News Australia in the last week was a interview with a Western Australia farmer with a ev and solar, he's encouraging all farmers to do the same. Also infrastructure has to match demand you can't just guess where to put the next lot of charging infrastructure.

The outback infrastructure will be easy, there's like two roads. ABC also showed outback charging infrastructure running on 100% solar no because there's no high voltage lines.

Oh that farmer is in The Driven magazine not ABC.

Valid argument.... As a former company vehicle driver, there's an element of both "fleet rotation" due to maintenance cost, "sell before the MOT", and an expectation of a new vehicle by the employee... "I'm paying the "benefit" in kind tax, so why not a new vehicle?" If they introduced a sliding scale on the benefit tax, reducing to zero after...... 4-5 years? You'd see a lot of employees changing from "I deserve a new vehicle" to "it's a tool to do the job... I'll take the saving" (it's a con anyway) . If a company can reduce costs, they won't care.

@@rogerstarkey5390 they could be hanging on as the Road Tax thing kicks in soon too and not many BEVs are under £40k. Note Tesla dropped M3 pricing to just below the magic £40k !

Allegedly...

I would rather keep my petrol car than buy a communist Chinese electric one.

On thing to blame is FBT. If small biz owners could buy non-commerical vehicles and _not_ be hit with FBT, I think *less* yank tanks would be on the roads. The gov't should make BEVs exempt from FBT, as well as LCT and stamp duty.

Where (which country) exactly? You need data before installation. You need to link and concentrate on areas of greatest use, if for no other reason to make the business model viable and keep use cost reasonable. Tesla led (leads) because... 1) They *had* to build the network for the vehicles to "work" as a system. . 2) They planned for the future of ALL vehicles on a unified network (probably globally, but didn't account for.... "Politics") . We've seen (are seeing) the results of other attempts. Either /or too late to compete, unreliable (due to cost cutting??) expensive possibly due to not building in house? . It parallels the vehicle market where "they" had the opportunity to take on "small Tesla" with what would have been with benefit of hindsight "Small" investment. Now? They must take on "Huge Tesla" requiring "huge" investment (which they can't provide) and competing with an established ecosystem of Superchargers often providing "half price" charging. . If only they had listened?

Could have been someone else who objected to your comments. Nothing wrong with nuclear and one day we might even see nuclear fusion plant. Who can say for certain?

@@t1n4444 I honestly don't know what was objectionable. Maybe too much. I broke it down into baby sized comments. Everybody gets confused about nuclear electricity matter. My point is the amount of future electricity if it is central generation. The grid is extremely expensive and so built to the minimum. Like many things, it is not overbuilt. The grid breaks in the middle of the day when just AC is turned on in too many homes and buildings. 75% of grid load is buildings and so better buildings are needed. There are 3 things. The generation The grid The customers THE GRID IS THE WEAKEST PART economically. Because it is extremely expensive and extremely huge. Just patching parts of the Australian grid exploded home electricity bills. Politically, the government nearly lost an election. The dispersed generation and storage must have a grid available. The existing national grid. Nuclear electricity is strategically an economic disaster for an economic no fossil fueled future. I have a career in the power industry. When the economy crashed, I climbed 830 new towers in a new transmission construction project. Project management Hard dollar tendering Coal fired steam turbine electricity generators, new greenfield site Gas fired jet turbine electricity generators, new greenfield site. Nothing wrong with nuclear electricity generation except for the grid problem. The old economic saying "It's the grid costs stupid. " Hahaha 👍 Hahaha Hahaha

The issues with Unclear (😉) are: 1) That it's already too expensive to build compared to alternatives which are getting cheaper by the day. . 2) That the energy produced is more expensive for the consumer. . 3) That the lead time from proposal, through consultation (Including NIMBY) , then design, planning, construction... Is ... Horrendous in comparison to alternatives which are not only much faster to *complete* but can be ramped over that time, essentially averaging 40-50% full capacity over the construction period. (Example... 100 turbines. Build connections. Install *1* turbine, [20% of construction time to this point?] connect it... Over the next 99, you average 50 working units... ) That's actually important. Why? Because it's a huge reduction in "other" generation on the grid during the project. "Unclear" is Binary. You plan/ build for 10 years (optimistic). During that time you get zero output. . When the project completes, you get "100%". But for those "10"(?) years, you're using... Fossil fuels. That's a legacy carbon footprint that the Unclear plant can never recover. . (imo)

@@rogerstarkey5390 🤣🤣🤣🤣 As per your comments are meaningless. As before why don't you write to those "research and developers" in nuclear power generation, fission or fusion, and point out where they're going wrong. I expect they will be absolutely fascinated to read your views and then thank you for saving billions more by your timely advice. Speaking of which how did you get on explaining to BMW that hydrogen fuels cells weren't going to work, in Europe or indeed S.Africa? I'm quite surprised you haven't told us of your Nobel Prize for Science, as in your work in debunking technical theories.

If you want to blow our energy bills out of the planet sure go with your nutty plan. All we need to do is get grid connections sorted in Australia and everything will be fine. Your Nuclear experiment will need these grid connections. So yes it is the grid costs stupid.

​@@jasonrhl I think nuclear is economically stupid, do you agree ??

⁠​⁠​⁠@@stephenbrickwood1602econocally bloody ridiculous. 40-50 billion dollars AU to build with no incentive for anyone to assist the government and it will be lumped on us to pay for. We will then need someone to get the fuel from which will more that likely be Russia. Then once it is built you will need the transmission lines we need to build to connect the grid correctly. Doubt if the Chinese power line owners will want to pay for that.

@@jasonrhl You're confusing me. I know the following, Nuclear is stupid economically. 5 times more electricity means TIMES more grid capacity. Insane economically.

@@stephenbrickwood1602how will you transport the power? I guess it can use wifi. We may aswell stay in the current path and allow the market to keep building. Once grid interconnects then renewables will grow faster and be completed before, long before you get the first power station build. They not lego. Even after it’s built not guaranteed to start. I think after some time you will understand. Plenty of good KZfaq videos from people like engineering with Rosie to help.

Good comment - climate change and clean cities another bonus.

I think you’ll find it’s well funded middle men who are our true masters. You are listening to one now. Check out the credentials of Behyad Jafari and see for your self who pays his way

Why become a slave to communist China?

Quite so. Why not buy British oil and gas? We're going back to the North Sea to prop up our fossil fuel industry and compensate for that rascal Putin. Bound to be plenty left over.

Why become a slave to the communist Chinese?

With about 33% the population concentrated in how much area?

Owning an electric car doesn’t need to be defended. You just need to care less about what other people think

​@theairstig9164 well I do now, like I said people need to come to their own conclusions if a EV is a good fit for them, some wont and will happily pay what the oli companes charge for a litre of petrol no matter how high that becomes in the future.

yes because the sun never comes up under the flat earth. There are a lot of us fighting stupid and I think stupid is winning. One state has basically gone 90% renewables and it still is not enough to show people it works

I don't believe that.

If you believe that, I've got a harbour bridge in Sydney to sell you. Only used on Sundays.

no mate, ......

I think that was funny, I think@@danielstapler4315

A little ray of hope? I've been shopping around for a used EV here in Denmark during the last month or so and prices have dropped so much recently it's now possible to get a sub 100k km 4 y/o Zoe 41kWh(311km range official, 200-250km realistically) for ~€10-12K Eur. Such a car would comfortably meet the needs of about 80% of the people i know(including myself). I'm confident once other countries reach same levels of EV adoption, they'll experience a similar trend.